How one SF library is becoming a model of climate resilience

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“We don't want to keep putting natural gas equipment into our buildings,” said SFEnvironment's Cyndy Comerford. “We know that our future is electric and that we need to stop using natural gas.”

When it reopens in 2024, the Mission branch of San Francisco’s Public Library system will be a model of climate resilience.

Close 1 of 6 Rendering of the future Mission Branch Library with the Orange Alley Addition. A rendering of the exterior of the Mission Branch Library with the Orange Alley Addition. The 24th Street side of the Mission Branch Library closed for renovation as seen on Thursday, March 2, 2023. What will become the main entrance to the newly renovated Mission Branch Library.

Rendering of the future Main Reading Room of the Mission Branch Library. Rendering of the future Main Reading Room of the Mission Branch Library. “We don't want to keep putting natural gas equipment into our buildings,” said Cyndy Comerford, program manager at the Department of Environment. “We know that our future is electric and that we need to stop using natural gas.”

In January, that debate exploded when a Biden administration appointee suggested that the U.S. should consider a hypothetical ban on gas. “I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove,” tweeted Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas in response. “If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE IT!!”

Four acts to catch in concert in SF this March Biig Piig, Robyn Hitchcock, Circa Waves and Betty Who light up local venues in MarchThat means the Mission Library has some heavy lifting to do if it’s going to be one of the first to give up gas. Built on the corner of 24th and Bartlett streets, the Mission Library, one of The City’s seven Carnegie Libraries, was the first branch to open city-wide in 1915.

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